There has come into being a kind of a Shia belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this gives Iran the opportunity to reconstruct the ancient Persian Empire – this time under the Shia label.

This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I’m a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can’t be too small to suit me.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

There’s only one person in this race who will be there, who’s always been there for you, and that’s Hillary Clinton’s life story.

There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.

I guess you’d call me an independent, since I’ve never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African American.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

I don’t follow politics much.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.

Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

There is obviously a gap between the public’s perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite’s perception.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

I’m not a conservative of any kind.

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

It’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

If you’re looking for the safe choice, you shouldn’t be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

I hate all politics. I don’t like either political party. One should not belong to them – one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice.

Politics is applesauce.

I haven’t been very active in politics.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.